Wednesday, 31 December 2008

Sati is a ghastly Indian tradition whereby a widow is slowly burnt to death as part of her husband’s funeral ritual. Naturally enough, a widower doesn’t have to do the same should his wife pre-decease him. The cruelty and barbarism of this is almost indescribable, and it’s hard to imagine a ‘cultural’ practice, anywhere, any time, more reprehensible.

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In many ways it’s the ultimate in anti-feminism. It was outlawed by the British early on in the Raj, and they strung up anyone they found guilty of enforcing it.

Now Maya Jasanoff is a tenured Humanities Professor at Harvard, and you can't get deeper into the PC/feminist fever-swamp than that. And ipso facto, you couldn’t find anyone anywhere more opposed to the likes of sati.

Well, you could, actually.

Writing in the current issue of the New York Review Of Books she has this to say. “Seen in one light, the abolition of sati looks like a model for more recent crusades such as the ‘liberation’ [her inverted commas] of Afghan women from the Taliban or the campaign against female circumcision. In its own times however, the abolition of sati, welcome as it was by a small, vocal constituency[my emphasis] of Indian reformers… formed part of a cultural and legislative shift that imposed British ‘civilisation’ [her inverted commas] on the Indians.”

Can you fucking credit that?

The outlawing of probably the most heinous anti-woman practice the world has known is seen as imposing so-called civilization on the noble savage. It just goes to show that feminists will prioritise non-Western ‘cultures’ at all times, even when women are the main victims of such cultures, as the booming silence from them of the anti-women practices of Islam testify.

Truly, the West’s culture and civilization are doomed when the people who should most appreciate them hate them as much as they do. Who's left to defend them?

Sunday, 28 December 2008

The St. Vincent de Paul (SVP) is a genuinely good organization. Through voluntary effort it looks after the most needy in our society, supporting those who fall through the welfare cracks. It’s increasingly addressing the issue of broken or dysfunctional families (although it doesn’t refer to them as such) through community centre-type services.

Carrigtohill, a very small town near Cork, has one such centre. It looks after children whose parents cannot or will not look after them. An article in the Irish Examiner of December 27 explained the good things that go on there. The article also had a photo of one of the supervisors and a large group of children.

Now Carrigtohill, on the face of it, and I travel there frequently, doesn’t have a black population as such. Unlike many other Irish towns, you’ll seldom see a black face as you walk along the main (only) street.

Yet in the Examiner’s photo, more than half of the children are black! The foundations for just what we’ve seen everywhere else in the West. Blacks come in, breed freely, throw their offspring onto the welfare services. These offspring then grow up to populate violent, crime-infested, welfare-dependent neighbourhoods.

Thursday, 25 December 2008

The Dutch have a tradition going back to the year dot in which Santa is assisted by Zwarte Piet (Black Peter). The Dutch are very attached to this tradition, but according to iReport.com, a user-generated news site with links to CNN, certain foreigners within Holland are not.

“For years many foreigners living in The Netherlands have been trying, without success, to point out the negative racist connotations of the Black Peter. We have been trying to let Dutch people know that many people find it offensive to don "blackface/golliwog" makeup.

We would like to see the Dutch realize that it would be nicer if they made "Zwarte Piet" a non-racist character -- just a person with some soot on his face from coming down the chimney, rather than with painted dark skin, afro, and a Caribbean accent to appear as a "slave" of the white "Sinterklaas", of which he was originally intended.”

To which my suggestion would be, if you don't like the Dutch traditions, and are ‘offended’ (that word again) by them, why don't you just fuck off back to the non-offensive hell-hole you fled?

But why do that when you can, er, convice the Dutch by more direct means? The way the Religion of Peace does it.

Here’s the report again: “There have been unfortunate threats to elementary schools who celebrate "Zwarte Piet". These threats are very sad, but not all that surprising given the current anti-multiculturalist climate in The Netherlands.”

Now isn't that sweet? Typical of the ‘moderate’ Muslims approach that I've pointed out on many occasions. It goes like this: We first politely ask you to bend to our will. If you don't, some of our more hot-headed members will, unfortunately – and while we don't agree with it we understand it - apply violence to ensure that you do.

Ergo, problem solved.

And what did you think of that little bit at the end “these threats are very sad, but not all that surprising given the current anti-multiculturalist climate”? The whole game has been betrayed by their own lips. We are now multicultural, so if you don't eliminate what we deem to be offensive we’ll resort to violence to ensure you do.

Einstein defined madness as doing exactly the same thing repeatedly in the expectation of achieving a different result. This is always brought to mind when the Pope prays for world peace every Christmas. To be quickly followed by yet another new year of war and slaughter. When will the penny drop that maybe God doesn't want peace? And why is it breathlessly reported by the MSM every year as if it were actually something newsworthy?

Wednesday, 24 December 2008

My learned readers will be familiar with George Orwell's 1984, and the term 'Newspeak'. This in effect meant that the Ministry of Propaganda twisted the meaning of words to suit their totalitarian agenda (e.g. this Ministry became the Ministry of Truth), and a whole parallel world of untruth was created by subtle and not-so-subtle language distortions.

We got a similar example this week in the Irish Times. There could, and should , have been a shock headline 'Almost One Birth In Five To Non-Nationals'. And this would indeed be a shocking statistic, showing as it does that the whole structure of our population will undergo fundamental change if such trends are maintained. Needless to say, cultural enrichers from Africa topped the reproductive league table. Looks like there'll be no shortage of knife-wielding recruits for the next decade's gangs.

So how can we suitably distort this alarming message? Simple, spin it 'Fewer Than One Birth In Five To Non-Nationals'.

Tuesday, 23 December 2008

Joyous Christmas cheer as we observe that rancid pope-poisoning pervert Bishop John Magee dangle slowly in the wind. He clings to power like shit to a blanket but his days seem numbered. He seems genuinely confused as to why he’s attracting so much opprobrium.

And why not? Protecting child molesters has been a key element of Bishops’ job spec for years. And now he’s being hung out to dry. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. I met him briefly once and found him to be an unctuous, greasy, limp-wristed, insincere, conniving, reptilian, jelly-like excuse for a human being.

He was catapulted into the Cloyne Diocese after his shenanigans during the untimely death of Pope John Paul I became too much for even the Vatican to stomach. Having spent his life up to then as a pampered Vatican bureaucrat, he was horrified to find that one of his female servants would be spending Christmas Day with her family. ‘But who’s going to look after me?’ he wailed, putting immense pressure on the woman to forsake her own family.

He’s as bent as a banana. I saw him in Cork Airport once saying goodbye to an Italian choirboy whom he had over in his palace as a ‘guest’. The way he groped, pawed and slobbered over the youngster was stomach-churning. Little wonder he was so unenthusiastic about putting the clampers on pedophile priests in his own diocese.

Sunday, 21 December 2008

I posted some time ago on the Great Slavery Wheeze, whereby enterprising ‘descendants of slaves’ were building up, with the aid of the Victim Industry, an apology for slavery from former Western slaving countries. There was also a little matter of compensation – not for the money, you must understand, just the principle. If you read the post in questionyou’ll see how, using their ‘logic’ I worked out that we in the West actually were owed money by the slave descendants.

Now, as every schoolboy knows, slavery was abolished by the West, specifically Britain, over 200 year ago. Unfortunately, especially for the slaves, it appears that there are more slaves world-wide today than there ever were in history. We have Anti-Slavery International (ASI) to thank for this interesting information.

So the Brits and the Yanks are at it again, are they? Well, no, not quite.

Rescued Sudanese slavesSo where, then? Well, quelle surprise, mainly in Africa, from the very people who are now trying to shake down the rest of us. It’s most severe in Dystopia West Africa, where countries such as Benin And Togo provide slave for their wealthier neighbours such as Nigeria, Gabon and Ghana, where they’re forced to work in the agricultural, domestic and sex industries. In fact UNICEF estimates that no fewer than 200,000 children from West and Central Africa are sold into slavery each year.

The abduction and operation of the practice involves unspeakable cruelty and general abuse.

Now when I hear the words cruelty and abuse, my mind naturally turns to the Religion Of Peace. A little further research and, ah yes, there it is.

Arab militias rode in to her village on horseback, firing their guns. When the adults fled, the children and cattle were rounded up and made to walk north for five days before they were divided between members of the raiding party. The report goes on to quote one rescued victim:

"My abductor told me that I was his slave and I had to do all the work he told me to - fetching water and firewood, looking after animals and farming.When I was 12, he said he wanted to sleep with me. I could not refuse because I was a slave, I had to do everything he wanted, or he could have killed me."

According to a study by the Kenya-based Rift Valley Institute, some 11,000 young boys and girls were seized and taken across the internal border - many to the states of South Darfur and West Kordofan. Most were forcibly converted to Islam, given Muslim names and told not to speak their mother tongue.

Ali - Yemeni slave in SaudiPhysical mutilation is practiced upon these slaves not only to prevent escape, but to enforce the owners' ideologies. According to an ASI report: "Kon, a thirteen-year-old Dinka boy, was abducted by Arab nomads and taken to a merchant's house. There he found several Dinka men hobbling, their Achilles tendons cut because they refused to become Muslims. Threatened with the same treatment the boy converted."

The report goes on “Animist tribes in southern Sudan are frequently invaded by Arab militias from the North, who kill the men and enslave the women and children.”

“Kill the men and enslave the women and children”. Now where the hell could they have got an idea like that? Well, from the Raving Psychopath 'Prophet' himself, no less!

I take the following from another postI made, and in turn take it from ‘sacred’ Islamic texts.SahihBukhari, volume 5, Book 59, Number 512: Narrated Anas: Then the inhabitants of Khaibar came out running on the roads. The Prophet had their men killed, their offspring and woman taken as captives. Safiya was amongst the captives, She first came in the share of Dahya Alkali but later on she belonged to the Prophet (prophet took her away from him after giving Dahya two women and five men in exchange for Safia, Ref. Sahih Muslim 8:3328) .

Spot any connection? That's why slavery is rampant throughout the Islamic world. They're just doing what 'the perfect man' did all the time.

One of Pakistan's 'Shackled Slaves'Anyway, the question is, if there’s more slavery today than ever, why is the West being singled out for reparations, 200 years after we put a stop to it? The answer of course is, because we’re the West. We’re seen as naïve fools who’ll fall for any cock-and-bull story as long as it’s from our non-white brethren. And they’re right.

You’ll wait a long time to see claims going in against their fellow Africans, Arabs, or Indians/Pakistanis, where hundreds of thousands of shackled slaves are still held.

Friday, 19 December 2008

As the Irish economy plunges towards the precipice, and any few bob will be eagerly grabbed, I offer a solution that will save over €1 billion annually. Get rid of the army. Close it down.Take away their toys and send them home. And then sell of all the prime land currently occupied by square-bashing soldiers.

Radical?

Maybe. But tell me this - why does Ireland need an army? What's that you say? we'll be immediately invaded by Russia or France in its absence? Get this. Our army is too small by a factor of fifty to deter any potential invader. So what purpose does it serve?

Peacekeeping abroad, you say.

Well, for a start we don't keep the peace anywhere. In fact the very idea of the Irish keeping the peace takes some digesting. We do indeed go to various trouble spots, but always under draconian UN-defined restrictions. This means that if the army is attacked by well armed enemies they're not allowed to fire back. They must first ring the UN General Assembly, which will tell them to fire one warning shot. If this doesn't work they may fire a second, again after consulting with New York. Then, and only then, (assuming any of them are still alive) they may fire one round at the enemy's feet.

Anyway, it seems to me that our army operates under the assumption that once any nastiness starts they get the hell out. This isn't a reflection on their courage, it's just that this seems to be the arrangement. In any event I've gone right off all of these initiatives, like the current one in Darfur, where today's enemy is tomorrow's ally, and vice versa.

We have no internal enemies and even when the IRA was active the army played essentially a back-up role.

What about our EU partners, you ask? Well, I'm sure they make all the right noises about needing our forces, but in fact they're just a drop in the ocean and nobody would even miss them.

Costa Rica, a wealthy, peaceful country in the middle of violent fucked-up Central America, doesn't have an army. Which probably explains why it's been democratically run by civilian governments since they decommissioned it - the first country to formally do so.. And they've never been invaded since then.

Now of you go, Brian Lenehan and Brian Cowan. Look at the money I've saved you.

Thursday, 18 December 2008

‘Dr.' Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin (I apply inverted commas to the “Dr.” because Cardinals don't have to have a PhD to get that title, it comes with the purple socks when they get promoted) had stern words for the Government in an interview with Pat Kenny on the Late Late Show last Friday. (By the way, isn't his outfit gorgeous?)

He enjoined the Government, now that we’re encountering tough times, to “develop a robust national poverty strategy”. He also urged people to mind their money. "We would all be happier if we were a little bit more austere in our lifestyle. I think there is room for a lot of improvement. Nobody is in favour of waste, throwing food away or spending on things that are absolutely useless. If we learn some of that it will be for the good of all of us."

Indeed. Indeed. Highly commendable. It’d have been even more commendable had he offered to pay tax on Church profits. But let's not be niggardly.

So presumably Diarmuid set about living up to his word by cutting back on his own luxurious lifestyle? Well, no, not really. In fact he’s just spent half a milliondoing up his palace in Drumcondra (near Bertie – another daily Communicant).

And, doing his own bit for poverty and humility, Diarmuid does a lot of his own cooking. He likes to cook. And what better to support the habit than a €94,000 top-of-the-range Miele kitchen? Can just imagine him, slaving away there, all on his own. Brings Eleanor Rigby to mind, it does, 'mending his socks in the night when there’s nobody there’.

A recent Steve Sailer poston the financial meltdown underlines just how corrupt and blind the whole system is. It also underlines how daft we are to trust in our ‘betters’. He shows that there’s little incentive for outsiders to point out big shots' fraud and misinformation, and such whisle blowers face a lot of potential risk.

Steve takes time out to salute Harry Markopolous, who first brought Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme to the Securities and Exchange Commission's awareness in 2000 and then wrote them a 19 page letter in 2005 listing 29 Red Flags.

Of course, the SEC didn't do anything substantitive about it (other than one SEC official marrying into the Madoff family). Markopolous tried to talk the SEC into taking action by warning them that if they didn't move fast, Elliot Spitzer would beat them to it. (But now we know that the Spitzer family real estate firm, like so many New York real estate businesses, had money with Madoff.)

One thing that stands out is that Markopolous wasn't alone. He was just the guy who kept complaining about it. Markopolous's 2005 letter cites numerous experts, either by name or by position, who figured out this was a fraud. But Markopolous was one of the few to do anything about it.

Wednesday, 17 December 2008

It’s seriously overdone to say something defies belief, but the expression can be justifiably applied to the economic incompetence of the Irish Government. Not alone did they sleep-walk into the present economic crisis and, a la Bush, transform record surpluses into record deficits, but they still haven't learned, even as we get within touching distance of the iceberg.

In order to save a few million they’ve implemented deeply unpopular cuts in health and education, but meantime they’ve ignored the opportunity to save billions, for example by deferring any foreign ‘aid’ until we get back into the black, and by selling off some of our mis-managed state assets.

Then comes the ‘pork crisis’. Now the annual value of this industry is €350 million. We lose a few days production and the industry (mainly farmers) come looking for compensation. Leave aside for a minute that any other so-called industry would have to fend for itself, but the Government immediately agrees a package worth €180 million! Half a year’s worth! Please explain.

Then, with 2009 likely to show miniscule inflation levels, if not outright deflation, they agree to give public servants a 4% pay increase, costing well over €1 billion. And of course getting nothing in return, such as changes in outmoded work practices.

And now there’s a nasty sting in the tail. With our AAA+ rating of a few years ago now in tatters, we’ll have to pay top dollar for the billions we’ll need to borrow over the next few years. That's bad. But what's really bad is that we may not get anyone to lend to us. The pool of funds to buy government bonds has shriveled like a scrotum in a snow-storm, as even the Germans, the most worthy of borrowers, have recently found out.

Tuesday, 16 December 2008

Have you ever wondered what drives people to seek political power? I can readily understand, if not agree with, efforts motivated by religion, class, country or race. (Of course, all too often these fuse into one). In a more abstract sense I can understand people being driven by conservatism or liberalism.

But the broader Bush regime puzzles me. Sure, they call themselves conservatives, and have mastered the traditional conservative vocabulary. But as I've suggested in this post, Bush is no conservative. In fact he undermines most of the fundamental conservative principles through reckless financial mismanagement, becoming embroiled in ‘foreign entanglements’, while making government bigger and more intrusive then ever before. The same can be said for any of the other potential drivers, i.e. professed adherence to them have not been supported by actions..

So what are the drivers?

Two new books provide some interesting guidelines. ‘The Predator State’, by James Galbraith (son of the famous JK), and 'Imposter: How GW Bush Bankrupted America And Betrayed The Reagan Legacy’ by Bruce Bartlett come at the subject from different perspectives but arrive at similar conclusions.

Galbraith sees the emergence of a ‘new class – endowed with vast personal income, freed from the corporation, who set out to take over the state and run it – not for any ideological reason, but simple in the way that would bring them, individually and as a group, the most money, the least disturbed power, and the greatest chance of rescue should something go wrong’

Galbraith defines this as ‘predation’ - ‘the systematic abuse of public institutions for private profit’. Most recent events clearly support this interpretation, most notably the bailout for Wall St. fat cats while leaving millions of ordinary citizens immeasurably worse off. Add in the legislation that Bush has rushed through, in the interregnum period before he leaves office, which allows his business cronies rape and pillage the environment at will.

But is this motivation enough? Surely, if you’re already vastly wealthy you won't feel overly motivated to take over the political system to gouge out even further booty? It certainly wouldn’t be for me. Once I achieved a certain degree of financial comfort I found the economic imperative almost disappeared.

Who can say? But whatever the reasons, they've been disastrous for America and the world.

Monday, 15 December 2008

These are difficult times. Everywhere we look the bad guys seem to triumph as we stand by helplessly. Delighted to come across this picture then in which said bad guys are getting their asses truly whupped by an army of angels. Go angels!

Saturday, 13 December 2008

From Reuterswe learn that police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises. This after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur. As I reported in this post, many body parts, especially those from young children, and when they’re extracted with a lot of pain and suffering, form a valuable component of traditional medicine in Africa.

Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters. Well, that's the least I'd do if someone shrank my penis, I can tell you. Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs.

"I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said. "But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.

Needless to say, 'diversity' makes such practices commonplace now in ireland and Europe generally. And we'll likley see more of it as in South Africa ‘accredited’ faith healers are now legally free to operate under the terms of the new Traditional Healers Bill.

Friday, 12 December 2008

Thursday, 11 December 2008

A monstrous new issue of shocking racial discrimination has reared its ugly head. It seems there’s a dastardly plot to prevent blacks from getting jobs as football managers. And it’s happening world-wide!

Myles Brand in the Huffington Post laments “over the last three and a half decades, we have seen the numbers of African-American student-athletes swell to more than half in football and men's basketball. Ironically, what we have not seen is any progress in the hiring of African-American head football coaches in intercollegiate athletics. In fact, we are losing ground.

With firings this fall, there are, as of this date, only four black head football coaches among the 119 Football Bowl Subdivision programs in NCAA Division I. In the entire history of Division I football, excluding the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, there have only been 23 African-American head coaches, never more than eight at any one time, and now there are only four.

And then we have Garth Crooks (not Garth Brooks), formerly of Spurs and now with his snout deep in the Equality Industry trough as a football adviser to the Commission for Racial Equality. Crooks cites figures from the BBC which show the ‘scale of the problem’

Less [in the good old days when the Beeb wasn’t a diversity cesspool they’d have written ‘fewer’, not ‘less’ – but no matter] than 1% of senior coaching staff at the 92 league clubs are black - even though more than 20% of players are.

Only two managers are not white.

Just two of the nine most highly-qualified black coaches in the country currently have jobs in the league.

Since its inception in 1992, there has never been a black English manager in the Premiership - even though about 25% of its players are not white.

Crooks, doing his bit for the Victim Industry, describes the situation as "appalling".

"Football should be ashamed of itself," he told BBC Sport. "We're certainly not in a position where we can afford to exclude a whole section of society from coaching and management."

Just last week Paul Ince complained that criticism of him was largely ‘racially motivated.’

Now as has become widely recognised, (although not yet by the Nobel Committee) I solved the riddle of high black imprisonment rates in this post. And I have now solved the Riddle Of The Missing Black Football Managers.

And the reason is….

It’s the same reason you see so few blacks in senior management positions anywhere, or as scientists, surgeons or entrepreneurs: They’re no good at it. They can't cut it. Does anyone seriously think that a club with 40% of its players black will, for racist reasons, refuse to employ black coaches or managers? It’s just that none of them have been any good. The record shows it, and the same in American football. They were fired because they were no good.

Go back to Paul Ince. Last season was a good but not exceptional one for Blackburn. They finished close to the top of the Premiership, narrowly missed qualification for Europe at the very last game of the season. Ince took over this year, with the same team, and has lead them strongly and unerringly down to the bottom of the table, where they now flounder in the relegation zone. And the criticism is not based on this, but because "I's black".

As I've said on countless occasions, if you can't recognise what the problem is, you won't find a solution. And that’s why this whole diversity quota thing has been and will continue to be a disaster as long as we let the Victim Industry get away with it.

Wednesday, 10 December 2008

Islamits who planned to kill cartoonist released back into Danish society!

One of the two Tunisians who were allegedly plotting to kill the cartoonist who drew the 2006 controversial drawings of the raving psychopath 'prophet' Mohammed has been released from Danish prison into society. The sensitive court case has been heard at every level of Denmark’s legal system, but eventually the Supreme Court ruled there was not enough evidence to continue detaining the remaining suspect, known only as SC.

The other Tunisian, known as KS, left Denmark voluntarily in August in a shadowy case where Danish intelligence let him go allegedly because to try him in court would have meant revealing the methods and sources they use to do their intelligence work.

The JP news servicereported that suspect SC was also to be deported back to Tunisia, but the Refugee Appeals Board killed the motion because they felt he would be persecuted or tortured at home.

Oh the poor dear. Far beter to let him in Denmark where he can practice his terrorism in peace. I'd love to see the whole Appeals Board collectiely mugged by Islamic guests in that country.

There’s an old saying that if something appears to be too good to be true – it is. During my early music career I was offered the opportunity to play at a wedding in Kinsale where we’d get £20 per head. Now this, in the early seventies, was the equivalent of a full week’s pay for the average industrial worker. OK, we’d have to play shite material, but we’d hold our noses and persist.

After setting up the gear we strolled around – and the penny dropped with a resounding clang. Oh Jesus! Was this a knacker (traveller/itinerant/ gypsy) wedding?

Quick - check the guest list! An ample sprinkling of Carruthers, Ponsonbys or Pilkington-Gores would be reassuring. On the other hand were I to see… my heart sank and my sphincter dilated as I moved down the tables..... McDonagh, O’Driscoll, Ward, Mongan, Carmody. Worst fears confirmed.

A quick conflab. We could probably flee now, while the going was good. All three of us were driven in almost equal measure by greed and cowardice. Greed won. ‘But we’ll need to get paid in advance’ Peter the bassist suggested.

‘Fine – excellent idea’ I responded, ‘off you go up to nice Mr. Ward and tell him we want to get paid in advance because we think he’s a violent crook’. He declined, deferring to me as the band leader. Eventually it was agreed that all three of us would go to forward. In fact Mr. Ward was a perfect gentleman, and even if he was offended by the implication of what we were doing, he never let on. In fact I felt a bit guilty when he handed us the money, but not guilty enough, of course, to refuse it.

We commenced shortly afterwards, and it all seemed to be going swimmingly. Plenty of people on the floor, good natured bantering, good response to my witticisms on the mike. But after about an hour I noticed Terry (our drummer) removing his false teeth, and storing them carefully in the innards of his kit bag.

This was a worrying development. Although he had been known to remove his teeth say when a particularly energetic drum solo was coming up (to stop them flying out), he always placed them casually beside him, where they grinned at us for the duration of the solo. The fact that he was storing them away now was a source of considerable worry to me, because Terry was many years older than the rest of us, and was a shrewd and experienced observer. Even if he was a drummer.

‘There’s something up here’ I turned to Peter ‘keep your eyes peeled’

The atmosphere had indeed changed and an air of menace was palpable. We played on, but now nobody was dancing. I then got a brainwave. Based on Shakespeare's premise that ‘music soothes the savage breast’ I felt that a relaxed pleasant tune was just what was needed.

‘Got no bags or baggage to slow me down…... no comb or no toothbrush’ !!!!!!!!

My Jesus, what the fuck had I been thinking? They’ll think we were taking the piss out of them, and indeed, I noticed a few sharp looks cast our way. I immediately stopped, holding up my hands and saying: ‘ladies and gentlemen, a special announcement’. Now I had no idea what that announcement would be, all I wanted was to stop singing Travelling fucking Light.

My mouth, which was by now fully disengaged from my brain, was starting some bullshit when there was a loud crash, and two men could be seen wrestling at the far corner of the room. This was obviously the cue for the battle to begin, as suddenly the whole room was engulfed. As chairs, glasses, tables, bodies all flew through the air, we implemented our well practiced riot response routine.

Bass drum turned on its side, amps and speakers laid face down, and guitars buried under anything that could be found. Such incidents were fairly common, and usually broke up after a few minutes, with pride restored all around. The gear safe, we’d usually sit it out, and in fact quite enjoyed the entertainment, providing our yellow hides were safe.

But this was something else,. violence on a level none of us had ever seen before. Punches, of course, kicks, sometimes, but that was largely it for us. Here faces were ripped open with broken bottles and glass, downed combatants were kicked stamped and gouged as they lay on the floor, metal chairs smashed over heads. Fearsome punches thudded into bare flesh . And women were in the middle of it, laying into all and sundry.

We were sickened and terrified. But escape was blocked – the nearest exit was half way down the hall – and none of us were stepping into that melee! However, there was a large window behind the stage, which opened out onto a back alley.

‘Right lads, no arguing now. I’m going out that window, I’ll drive the car up, and ye can pass out the main gear. By that I mean guitars, echo unit and snare drum. We can come back for the rest later’ I raised my hands to forestall any opposition, but there was none. (This manoeuvre also gave me the opportunity to abandon my comrades in the event of their becoming embroiled, but I felt it better not to worry them with this possibility).

Anyway, it worked, and we survived our first exposure to authentic traveller culture, the kind of thing Denise Milaniwants us to celebrate.

Tuesday, 9 December 2008

To say I'm not a fan of the Irish bishops would be an understatement. I'm generally not fans of lying, parasitical pedophile-protectors. Their main media outlet, the Veritas chain, also falls under my stern gaze of disapproval. But now I leap to their defence. Why?

Well, they tried to place an Advertisement on RTE and the Broadcasting Commission Of Ireland (BCI) banned it, because, wait for it, it 'might cause offence'. And what might cause offence? The BCI highlighted three lines from the ad. The phrases were: “Christmas, aren’t we forgetting something? - Why not give a gift that means more? - So to give a gift that means more”.

In the name of Jesus - literally - who in their right mind could take offence at this? As a devout secularist it doesn't bother me one iota, and I don't know anyone else who'd take a different position. My own suspicion of course lies with the Religion Of Peace, whose adherents now comprise the second largest religion in Ireland (from virtually zero 20 years ago).

And even if it did 'offend' any of us, so what? My considered response to anyone who takes offence is 'go fuck yourself'. In any event, in my view, the Bishops have an enterprise that's competing in a dwindling market and they're entitled to advertise in support of market share, like any other commercial enterprise. But, also like any other commercial enterprise, they should be taxed on the profits (prophets?) and/or pay an entertainment tax.

The only good thing is that this piece of lunacy has attracted an almost uniformly hostile response, from every source. The Religion Of Peace has been notably silent, I might add.

Monday, 8 December 2008

Following my post a few days ago on gypsy, er 'culture', a diligent reader sent me this link from the Daily Mail, which goes straight into my bulging 'You Couldn't Make This Up' file.

In a move which has caused disbelief amongst rank and file officers, Scotland Yard has asked staff to 'celebrate' the contribution of Roma gipsies to 'London's culture and diversity.' In a notice posted on the force's intranet website, Denise Milani (pictured), director of the Met's 'Diversity and Citizen Focus Directorate'(I kid you not), urges officers to observe the first ever 'Gipsy Roma Traveller History Month.'

Ignoring the huge drain on resources caused by Romanian pickpockets who target commuters and tourists in the West End, Miss Milani - a protege of Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair - says Roma gipsies are welcome in the capital. She says: 'We welcome the celebration of the community's history and contributions to London's culture and diversity. 'The Gipsy Roma Traveller History month celebrates their history, culture and contributions to the rich tapestry of Britain's diversity.'

If you need to get a sense of such 'contributions', check my post here.

Her comments were described as 'political correctness off the Richter scale' by one furious detective. He added: 'What planet is this lady living on? We have been run ragged by gangs of Romanian gipsies who are targeting innocent people in the West End. How is that enhancing the rich tapestry of cultural life in Britain?'

Earlier this year, police staged a dramatic series of dawn raids in Slough, Berkshire, in a campaign to stamp out a Fagin-style crime ring involving Romanian slave children smuggled into Britain. Ten children were taken into care and 24 of their suspected controllers arrested on suspicion of human trafficking and organising theft involving up to £1billion a year. Many of those arrested were understood to be Roma gipsies.

The youngsters ranged in age from less than one to 17. Many such children are made to travel to central London every day and carry out crimes including pick pocketing, credit card cloning and theft. Police have estimated that each active Romanian criminal makes about £100,000 a year - most of which is channelled back to his home country to fund luxury cars and homes.

Sunday, 7 December 2008

The Cradle of Democracy has just provided us with a sneak preview of what lies in store for the rest of Europe in the years ahead. In scenes described by the New York Times as ‘resembling something from Africa a war zone’ police have clashed violently with African immigrants protesting over the death of a Nigerian man at the weekend.

The news enraged hundreds of African youths in the neighbourhood, who began attacking police cars with stones and firebombs, burning dozens of cars and smashing shop windows. As one does. "Hundreds of them hit the streets, probably for revenge ... Dozens of police units are gathering to try to control the situation," a police official, who declined to be named, said. Police responded by firing tear gas at the crowd, evacuating some restaurants in the area, and closing several streets to all traffic.

Greece has a massive illegal immigrant problem and given the restrictions on repatriation imposed by European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) the numbers ‘resident’ have been growing rapidly. The growing numbers, inevitably, have raised tensions with the existing population. Equally inevitably, Africans have been at the forefront of the troubles.

And it’s not over yet. Calls are being posted at websites, including the Independent Media Centre, for more people to join the protests in Greece's two main cities, as well as the city of Iraklio, on the island of Crete.

The original posta couple of days ago attracted some spritied objections. One in particular was detailed and convincing and I reprint it here in full in case you missed it.

"Savant,

The South is full of BLACKS. Mississippi and South Carolina are roughly 35% black. Georgia is about 25% black. Tennessee is 16% black. Lousiana is VERY black. Northeastern states like Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts are less than 10% black, with Vermont and Maine and New Hampshire being hardly black at all. Many jobs in the south have been outsourced in the the last 20 years.

You will not find much alcholism among white Protestants, I assure you. I live in the American South. Our problems are in order of decreasing troubles: black, hispanic, with kurdish and asian gangs rounding out the bottom. Its not as if many lower-class whites would not turn to crime and other anti-social activites if they could, but prison here is a living hell for whites............who instinctively know they will be outnumbered badly in there and raped, beat, etc.

So even "white trash" whites generally try and stay on the "right side" of the law, even if they resent it. They become "working poor" before they turn to welfare-ism and criminality. However, their life's chances are getting dimmer and dimmer as more and more factories close shop and go to China, and more tech help in insourced from Pakistan and India, leaving tech-school trained and low-skilled whites with little gainful employment to do.

Many "double up" and work an evening job or get a weekend job with both spouses working to support THEIR ONE KID. Our elite in America have made their choice clear............they HATE AND DESPISE the white middle and working classes and are doing every thing possible to stiffle their birthrates, get them to interbreed with the "new" Americans, and harm their life-chances by every social and educational (its very hard for a white male to get a scholarship to our increasingly expensive colleges unless he really is a brainiac or athlete), and psychological (you ought to read our history books..........you'll be made to know you are the bad guy endlessly, and watching our commercials would make an alien think that white males are impossibly stupid and emotionally retarded) way possible.

They are winning. A study "designed" like this one was made to be deceptive from the outset. Any American who has been to these places (the Northeast or the South) knows that the South if full of dysfunctional blacks, many many of whom that were raised in churches, but bought in to the MTV-sold "thug" "rapper" lifestyles (very intentional in my opinion on the part of the elite), and thus take on underclass social folkaways.

Lumping this subset in with white protestant non-drinking babtists, and "speaking-in-tongues" Church of God and uber-conservative Church of Christ types is profoundly deceptive. Even after all the social "warring" upon them, the white protestants in the south still breed at slightly above replacement birthrates. One reason that their divorce rates might not have the expected difference from Northeastern Secular Liberal divorce rates IS BECAUSE THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIANS ACTUALLY GET MARRIED AND NOT SIMPLY COHABITATE. You cant have a very high divorce rate when many people just shack up or delay marriage until their late-30's, when they have to have their one kid or not have one at all."

Thank you for this comment, anonymous. As I said, it's excellently argued and I largely go along with your interpretation.

Saturday, 6 December 2008

The Washington Post runs a weekly contest in its Style section called the 'Style Invitational'. The requirements this week were to use the two words 'Lewinsky' (the Intern) and 'Kaczynski' (the Unabomber) in the same limerick.

Third place:

There once was a girl named LewinskyWho played on a flute like Stravinsky'Twas 'Hail to the Chief'On this flute made of beefThat stole the front page from Kaczynski.

Second place:Said Clinton to young Ms. Lewinsky,We don't want to leave clues like Kaczynski,Since you made such a mess,Use the hem of your dressAnd please wipe that stuff off your chinsky.

And the winning entry: Lewinsky and Clinton have shownWhat Kaczynski must surely have known,That an intern is betterThan a bomb in a letter,When deciding how best to be blown.

Thursday, 4 December 2008

I've posted before on what I see as the relatively lower moral standards in religious countries as against those of a more secular bent. In this instanceI was specifically referring to the Religion of Peace, for which pointing out comparative moral decrepitude is like taking candy from a baby.

But a study in the Journal of Religion and Society, by a researcher called Gregory Paul, tests the hypothesis that religion leads to more moral living. Specifically that it is associated with lower rates of “lethal violence, suicide, non-monogamous sexual activity and abortion”. He compared data from 18 developed democracies, and discovered that the Christian fundamentalists couldn’t have got it more wrong.

I'm glad to say.

“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion … None of the strongly secularized, pro-evolution democracies is experiencing high levels of measurable dysfunction.”

Within the United States “the strongly theistic, anti-evolution South and Midwest” have “markedly worse homicide, mortality, STD, youth pregnancy, marital and related problems than the Northeast where … secularization, and acceptance of evolution approach European norms”.

Now I admit I'm biased, in that I see formal religion and obscurantism at the heart of almost every conflict in the world today - indeed as far back as we can look. And in this I define Nazism and Communism as religions – albeit non-spiritualist ones.

I must also admit that the statistical techniques used in the survey seem weak (no regression is used, for what seem to me unconvincing reasons) and the fundamental cause/effect imperative has been overlooked. By this I mean that co-relation doesn’t necessarily mean causation.

Still, it’s great to see the craw thumpers having their noses shoved in it. Only problem is, of course, that the new secular religion which has taken the place of Christianity is working out even worse for us, prostrating us before The Beast. So, as I said here, maybe we still need Christianity, even if it makes us immoral bastards!

(The Sindo tells us that the author, who can't be named as she'd be crucified by the PC Thought Police, has been a medical professional for many years.)

When Bad Workers Play The Race Card - Sunday Independent, 30 November 2008

'YOU'RE nothing but an Irish racist bully; you talk down to me because I'm black!"

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I stayed seated at my desk while the outraged nurse towered above me. With her arms akimbo and voice-a-bellow, I might have been cowed by her stance, except with this particular person, unfortunately, it was nothing new.

I stayed silent for a while and just bided my time, watching her. She had uttered the magic word used by many care staff and nurses I'd met in my 25-year nursing career to get them out of trouble -- 'racist'. This nurse wasn't racist. Nope. She didn't care what race the staff of the institution were -- Polish, Filipino, and Irish staff, all were intimidated, sulked at and terrorised in equal fashion.

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She wasn't ageist either. It didn't matter what age the patients were, all were pulled roughly into or out of their chairs, beds or wheelchairs; and name calling of the more confused, such as 'stupid', 'liar' and 'crazy' were commonplace. And this was only the start of her list of attributes.

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To my shame, yes, I was racist. If she had been an Irish nurse, I would not only have read her the riot act, I would also have got her suspended and reported her to the Nursing Board's Fitness to Practise committee on first encountering her behaviour.

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This was at least my third attempt to reason with her. Sometimes, where ignorance is bliss, the folly of wisdom makes cowards of us all.

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Two other foreign workers were employed in another institution where I spent time on the staff. Their problem was that they were constantly late for work and exhausted when they did turn up. They worked separate shifts, one the day and the other the night. Their obvious exhaustion made them perpetually irritable and short-tempered.

When at last, after numerous complaints from staff of different ethnic origins, a senior manager called one of them aside for a chat, the excuse was enlightening. Apparently, the couple had small children, but because their object in working was to save as much money as possible to send back to their native country in preparation for going home, they would not countenance spending money on child-minders.

Therefore, when one arrived to work with the children in the car, the other took over at the end of the shift. The obvious exhaustion and time delay factors aside, child safety -- when the night duty parent was grabbing a few hours' sleep -- raised serious issues. Apparently the television was as overworked as the parents. Numerous diplomatic efforts were made by the manager to highlight the difficulties from the perspective of the institution where they worked.

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A doctor from an African country was less than fastidious when it came to hand-washing between patients. He was also curt to the point of rudeness -- not a great attitude to have in any doctor. In fact, he usually bypassed the 'time-wasting' cleanliness in favour of getting the work done.

The issue of infection control, especially with open wounds, was of huge concern to other staff, but insane as it may sound now, none of us felt able to tackle him. This was in the pre-MRSA publicity days. We complained and though he was eventually dealt with, we felt guilty for having delayed at all in complaining.

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Our delay was possibly because we feared being accused of racism and, as a result, we allowed that fear to take second place to good professional judgement. Worse, there may have been an element of racism on our part in that subconsciously we thought that perhaps, because of his background, his hygiene training might not have been as good as our own. What we should have realised straightaway was that he was a lazy, grumpy sod.

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And in not acting because of fear of being thought racist, we did ourselves and, more importantly, our patients, a disservice.

Tuesday, 2 December 2008

I've long been fascinated by the mind-numbing ignorance you get from participants on quiz shows. Not the ignorance itself, which surrounds us everywhere, rather their ignorance of their ignorance that fascinates.

Who can forget Larry Gogan’s legendary ‘Sixty Second Quiz’ on RTE, where more ignorance was proudly displayed in the eponymous 60 seconds than you’d get in sixty years of normal company. Such entertainment! Sadly I forget almost all of the gems. Just two can I remember ‘what’s Hitler’s first name?’ – ‘Heil’, and ‘what was Vincent van Gogh famous for?’ – ‘captained Holland during the World Cup’.

However, this particular show had no pretensions, nor did the participants. However, many of the following pearls are derived from high-powered contests, white-knuckle time, with substantial money at stake, and where, hard as it will be to believe, the contestants were winnowed out from a huge initial entry.

Enjoy!

BEG, BORROW OR STEAL (BBC2)

Jamie Theakston: Where do you think Cambridge University is?

Contestant: Geography isn't my strong point.

Theakston: There's a clue in the title.

Contestant: Leicester.

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LATE SHOW (BBC MIDLANDS)

Alex Trelinski: What is the capital of Italy?

Contestant: France.

Trelinski: France is another country. Try again.

Contestant: Oh, um, Benidorm.

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THE WEAKEST LINK (BBC2)

Anne Robinson: - Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Archer have all written books about their experiences in what: - Prison, or The Conservative Party?

Contestant: The Conservative Party.

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BEACON RADIO (WOLVERHAMPTON)

DJ Mark: What is the nationality of the Pope?

Ruth from Rowley Regis: I think I know that one. Is it Jewish?

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UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE

Bamber Gascoigne: What was Gandhi's first name?

Contestant: Goosey?

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GWR FM (Bristol)

Presenter: What happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963?

Contestant: I don't know, I wasn't watching it then.

UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE (BBC2)

Jeremy Paxman: What is another name for 'cherrypickers' and cheesemongers'?

Contestant: Homosexuals.

Paxman: No. They're regiments in the British Army who will be very upset with you

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LINCS FM PHONE-IN

Presenter: Which is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world?

Contestant: Barcelona.

Presenter: I was really after the name of a country.

Contestant: I'm sorry, I don't know the names of any countries in Spain.

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NATIONAL LOTTERY (BBC1)

Question: What is the world's largest continent?

Contestant: The Pacific

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JAMES O'BRIEN SHOW (LBC)

O'Brien: How many kings of England have been called Henry?

Contestant: Er, well, I know there was a Henry the Eighth ... er.. .er... Three?

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PAUL WAPPAT (BBC RADIO NEWCASTLE)

Paul Wappat: How long did the Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel last?

Contestant (after long pause): Fourteen days.

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STEVE WRIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON (BBC RADIO 2)

Wright: Johnny Weissmuller died on this day. Which jungle-swinging character clad only in a loincloth did he play?

Monday, 1 December 2008

Do I imagine it, or has there been a significant increase in the gypsy population since I've been away? If so, what a disaster.

These particular cultural enrichers are taught that their ancestry involved stealing in the name of God, and as such God has thus rewarded them with the license to steal from non-Gypsies as a means to live. A bit like the Religion Of Peace in that sense. God was certainly successful in this, as they have, in the intervening time, managed to scam incredible sums of money from their victims.

Another feature of gypsy ‘culture’ is that women are the main breadwinners (bread stealers?). In a polar reverse of almost every other culture, whereby a man’s pride is his ability to provide, a male gypsy is demeaned by ‘ordinary’ work. Hence women and children are trained in thievery and scamming from the earliest age.

Their abilities are truly extraordinary. For instance ex-Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson was relieved of his wallet by a small group of gypsy girls who accosted him on the famous Via Veneto in Rome. He gave chase but they outran him!

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Despite the usual bleatings of discrimination, gypsy ‘culture’ deems it important that they keep separate from mainstream society, which, and I kid you not, they regard as corrupting! This is like the Muslim with four simultaneous wives, who trades in the oldest for a new teenage model every few years, and who regards Western sexual mores as offensive. Which they do, I might add.

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Gypsies and Romanians are not synonymous

There’s a popular misconception that gypsies and Romanians are one and the same. This isn't true at all and causes ordinary Romanians no end of grief and indignation. The belief probably stems from the gypsies being known as Romani, but this actually refers to their language. In fact they originated in India, or more correctly in what is today’s Pakistan, in the Sind region.

.For some reason they left there and exploded into central Europe around the 15th century.

Even then they were up to their tricks. The usual scam involved a group claiming to be from Egypt showing up in a city and informing city officials that they were Christians doomed to wander for a period of years to fulfil a penance imposed upon them. They’d collect food, money and letters of protection from the city and then continue to the next town.

I've had – mercifully - only two significant exposures to gypsies. On one occasion in Barcelona I was sitting at a pavement café with some colleagues, our laptops at our feet. Nobody was within 20 feet of us. Suddenly we noticed a row breaking out amongst some gypsies further down the road, much shouting, pushing and screaming, which went on for a few minutes.

Shortly after one of us noticed that his laptop was gone. We were totally dumbfounded as nobody had been near us for about 15 minutes, and we knew it had been there in the intervening time. In a state of great agitation we called the waiter. He shook his head in sympathy and explained what had happened. The ‘row’ had been a distraction. While we’d been looking at it a gypsy accomplice had used a fishing rod to hook the laptop, drag it towards him (more likely her) and make off with it!

The second one was a beauty. Friends of mine in Cork objected to a landlord adding a major extension to the house adjoining theirs. In a highly original move he then filled up the house with about a dozen gypsy ‘refugees’. They made everyone’s life a nightmare. They stole everything that could be stolen, including clothes off their line. Worse, they fought and screamed all day and night, and their girls and younger women entertained their johns in the adjoining areas, often in view of neighbouring children.

These incidents are typical. Throughout Europe gypsies have become a byword for thieving, scamming, welfare dependence, truancy, violence and debased cultural norms. We owe these people nothing. We should force them out without compassion, or at a minimum subject them to the full force of the law. As long as they choose, and I emphasise choose, to live as nomadic parasites they should be treated as such.

If you’re interested in learning more I recommend License To Steal, Traveling Con Artists, Their Games, Their Rules---Your Money(Dennis Marlock & John Dowling)